January 22
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Art and culture
Births
- 1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
- 1849 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
- 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
- 1875 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
- 1891 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (d. 1937)
- 1893 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
- 1904 - George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
- 1946 - Malcolm McLaren, English impresario, musician and self-publicist
- 1953 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
Deaths
- 1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
- 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
- 1666 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
- 1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
- 1763 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
- 1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
- 1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
- 1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
- 1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
- 1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
- 1900 - David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
- 1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
- 1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
- 1922 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
- 1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
- 1922 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
- 1931 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
- 1949 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
- 1950 - Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
- 1951 - Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
- 1959 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
- 1966 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
- 1967 - Robert Henriques, British writer (b. 1905)
- 1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
- 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
- 1975 - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
- 1978 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
- 1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
- 1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
- 1982 - Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
- 1987 - Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
- 1987 - Wally Whyton - British musician/songwriter and radio/TV personality (b. 1929}
- 1988 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
- 1991 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
- 1993 - Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)
- 1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
- 1994 - Rhett Forrester, American singer, Second Riot frontman (b. 1956)
- 1994 - Telly Savalas, Greek-American actor (b. 1922)
- 1995 - Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (b. 1949)
- 1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (b. 1890)
- 1997 - Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
- 1997 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
- 1997 - Wally Whyton, English musician (b. 1929)
- 1999 - Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
- 2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
- 2000 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
- 2001 - Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
- 2002 - Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
- 2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
- 2004 - Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
- 2004 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
- 2004 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
- 2005 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2005 - Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
- 2005 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
- 2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
- 2007 - Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
- 2007 - Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer
- 2007 - Disco D, American music producer (b. 1980)
- 2007 - Carlos Olivier, Venizuelan actor and physician (b. 1952)
- 2007 - Liz Renay, American actress (b. 1926)
- 2007 - Ngo Quang Truong, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
Notes
Antonio Gramsci François Truffaut August Strindberg George Byron Malcolm McLaren Victoria of the United Kingdom Georg Friedrich Händel Kobo Abe Arthur Symons The Happy Wanderer Jim Jarmusch Pierre Gassendi Grigori Rasputin D. W. Griffith Jean-Louis Barrault Conrad Veidt
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